{"id":627,"date":"2009-09-22T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2009\/09\/22\/the-book-of-william\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:37:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:37:14","slug":"the-book-of-william","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2009\/09\/22\/the-book-of-william\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book of William"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/langsdale.ubalt.edu\/news\/uploaded_images\/firstfolio-701318.jpg\" style=\"clear: left;float: left;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/langsdale.ubalt.edu\/news\/uploaded_images\/firstfolio-701315.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Among the many new books at the Langsdale Library, <a href=\"http:\/\/ubalt.worldcat.org\/oclc\/310224906\">The Book of William: How Shakespeare&#8217;s First Folio Conquered the World<\/a> by Paul Collins, is worthy of note. [Call number: Z8813 .C65 2009]&nbsp; It describes the publishing of the First Folio by Shakespeare&#8217;s friends and the adventures of the various copies over the centuries.&nbsp; Some odd information contained in the book is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oxford University threw away their First Folio when the new and improved Second Folio was published!<\/li>\n<li>Howard Staunton, of chess set fame, was the first to lithograph the First Folio for multiple copying.<\/li>\n<li>Henry Folger began collecting with the Staunton book and ended by establishing the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. with 79 First Folios!<\/li>\n<li>One of the First Folios is called the &#8220;Farting Folio&#8221; because it was held in an unsavory location for some centuries and is odoriferous when you turn the pages!<\/li>\n<li>Japan is digitizing their Folios so that the scholar will be able to compare the same plays in the First Folio, Second Folio, Third Folio, and Fourth Folio<\/li>\n<li>Langsdale&#8217;s Special Collections has a facsimile of the <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.umd.edu\/docno=000121200\">First Folio<br \/><\/a> (well, OK, that may not be specifically mentioned in Collins&#8217; book, but we  have a facsimile of the First Folio nonetheless)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the many new books at the Langsdale Library, The Book of William: How Shakespeare&#8217;s First Folio Conquered the World by Paul Collins, is worthy of note. [Call number: Z8813 .C65 2009]&nbsp; It describes the publishing of the First Folio <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2009\/09\/22\/the-book-of-william\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  The Book of William<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}